2 killed, 1 critically injured in daylight West Side shooting

A lone gunman quietly approached three men walking down a West Side street and opened fire, killing two of them and critically injuring the third, Chicago police said this morning.

The broad daylight shooting happened just after 10 a.m. Tuesday in the 200 block of South Laramie Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood, according to police.

The three victims, two 20-year-olds and a 24-year-old, were walking down Laramie when the gunman attacked, spraying all three victims with gunfire before vanishing, police said.

Several people seen crying at the scene declined comment to a Tribune reporter just after the shooting.

One of the 20-year-old men, Stephen Carson, of the 8100 block of South Vernon Avenue, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

A second victim, Tienne Pinson, 24, of the 5200 block of West Quincy Street, was also hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the chest and was also pronounced dead.

The surviving 20-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai, where he was listed in critical condition as he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the chest, polices said.Police had only a vague description of the gunman and offered no motive for the slaying.

No arrests had been made as Grand Central Area detectives continued their investigation.